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Routes of English: The Dawn of English (Series 1, Programme 2)
English takes on Latin, eventually becoming the world language of instruction.
Melvyn Bragg goes to Winchester, home of King Alfred the Great in the ninth century and the place where...£1.24 £2.49
Voices of the Powerless: The Colonisation of Australia
In this episode taken from the BBC Radio 4 series, Melvyn Bragg voyages to Tasmania to find out what a sentence of transportation to Van Diemen's Land really meant to those who survived the...
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Routes of English: Complete Series 2: Humour and Cussing
Melvyn Bragg examines new coinages, puns and wordplay; how accents and social class are entwined; swear words; attempts to stop the evolution of language in its tracks; and, finally, the many...
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Voices of the Powerless: The Complete Series
Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with 'Voices of the Powerless', the BBC Radio 4 series in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and...
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A Son of War
Reader: Mark McGann
After the Second World War, many found a return to the old life more difficult than they had anticipated. Like Sam Richardson, who was determined to break free of the constraints of his background...
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The Adventure of English
Reader: Robert Powell
An expansion of the ideas and research contained in the acclaimed ITV series, 'The Adventure of English 500AD to 2000'.
This is the remarkable story of the English language; from its...£9.84 £19.69£23.50
Routes of English: Home (Series 1, Programme 1)
Melvyn Bragg goes back to his home town of Wigton in Cumbria to see how English is developing - and how dialects are still spoken. He meets townspeople from all generations and walks of life, from...
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Routes of English: Stroke City (Series 3, Programme 2)
Local talk in the city known variously as Londonderry, Derry and, more recently, as Stroke City.
Its very name speaks of deep-seated political, social, even linguistic divisions. Known...£1.24 £2.49
Voices of the Powerless: The Industrial Revolution
In this episode taken from the BBC Radio 4 series, Melvyn Bragg is in urban Lancashire to explore the warp and weft of the Industrial Revolution - how the upheavals of the new mechanisation...
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Routes of English: Coining it (Series 2, Programme 1)
When a new concept or product comes along, how does it get its name? Making up new words for new things or ideas isn't new. New words - linguists call them 'coinages' - are as old as the English...
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Routes of English: What is Spanglish? (Series 4, Programme 1)
We explore the rise of powerful non-English linguistic forces in the United States.
Starting at Plymouth Rock where the Pilgrim Fathers landed in 1620, Melvyn Bragg follows the...£1.24 £2.49
Remember Me
Reader: Mark McGann
A passionate but ultimately tragic love affair starts when two students - one French, one English - meet at university at the beginning of the sixties. From its tentative, unpromising early...
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Routes of English: France and England (Series 1, Programme 3)
Where better than Hastings to look at the impact of the French on the English language? Melvyn Bragg goes to Hastings, where in 1066 William, Duke of Normandy, defeated King Harold and invaded...
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Voices of the Powerless: The English Civil War
Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with 'Voices of the Powerless', the BBC Radio 4 series in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and...
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Routes of English: A World of Many Englishes (Series 2, Programme 6)
Two countries separated by a common language, but there are more than two Englishes.
We've been speaking English for more than 1,000 years and over that time it has changed radically....£1.24 £2.49
Routes of English: Pitmatic (Series 3, Programme 1)
Talk of the town, talk of the pit in Ashington, Northumberland.
It's been called the most beautiful dialect in England. It's the talk of coastal Northumberland that until recently...£1.24 £2.49
Routes of English: The Power of English (Series 1, Programme 5)
The power of English - and the ‘English of Power’, as the language extends its influence from Court to Edinburgh.
Melvyn Bragg goes to Edinburgh and the house of John Knox, the...£1.24 £2.49
Voices of the Powerless: Coal Mining and the Depression
In this episode taken from the BBC Radio 4 series, Melvyn Bragg visits Merthyr Tydfil to look at the plight of the miners in the Depression.The industrial communities of South Wales, built first...
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Routes of English: Conclusion (Series 3, Programme 6)
The final programme in the series considers the future of English dialects.
In the last programme in the series Melvyn looks at Standard English. He is joined by Lynda Mugglestone,...£1.24 £2.49
Voices of the Powerless: The Reformation
Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with 'Voices of the Powerless', the BBC Radio 4 series in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and...
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In Our Time: The Written World
Broadcaster and arts presenter Melvyn Bragg fronts 'The Written World', a five-part BBC Radio 4 series following the origins of writing from its first appearance 6,000 years ago and exploring how...
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Routes of English: No Pigeon (Series 3, Programme 4)
Melvyn visits Brixton to discover the most imitated, influential form of spoken English today. It's a dialect determined not by geography or profession, but by age, fashion and aspiration. Pulsing...
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Routes of English: The Hurricane Speaks (Series 4, Programme 3)
Here we take up the story of Caribbean English where the Brixton Routes left off.
For the poet Edward Kamau Braithwaite the legacy of the English language is something from which he, in...£1.24 £2.49
Voices of the Powerless: The Highland Clearances
Visiting the Hebridean island of Mull today, it's not long before someone mentions the steep decline in population that the Scottish highlands and islands suffered 150 to 200 years ago. And it...
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Routes of English: Complete Series 3: Accents and Dialects
Melvyn Bragg looks at dialects from around Britain: the Pitmatic of Northumberland, the dialect of (London/Derry), the increasingly elusive Cornish dialect, Pidgin, and Shropshire dialect, then...
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